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  2. Norman James Brian Plomley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Plomley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Norman James Brian Plomley. Norman James Brian Plomley AM (1912–94), one of the most respected and scholarly of historians writing about the Tasmanian Aborigines, was born in Sydney, and graduated BSc (Sydney, 1935) and MSc (Tasmania, 1947).

  3. Ricky Ponting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Ponting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ricky Ponting. Ricky Ponting (b 1974), of Launceston, is Tasmania's highest-achieving cricketer. Small in stature, still boyish in face and manner, arguably the world's best fieldsman, he bats for Australia in the prime number three position. He

  4. Abalone

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abalone.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Abalone. Recherche Bay (AOT, PH30/1/3136). Abalone, blacklip and greenlip shellfish, was harvested by Aborigines, then Chinese miners. Chinese residents of Recherche Bay preserved abalone by smoking it, and exported some to Melbourne. European

  5. Roberts Limited

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Roberts.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roberts Limited. George Anthony Kemp, a founder of Roberts (AOT, PH30/1/267). Roberts Limited began in 1865 when Henry Llewelyn Roberts, George Anthony Kemp and John William Abbott established a successful auctioneering business originally known as

  6. Snaring and Trapping

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Snaring.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Snaring and Trapping. Snaring and trapping of native mammals for their skins began with human occupation of Tasmania. While the activity occurred throughout the island, the most valuable skins were found in the high country where colder weather

  7. Muslim community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Muslims.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Muslim community. Muslims form 1. 5 percent of all Australians but only 0. 2 percent of Tasmanians, nearly two-thirds of them living in Hobart. Ethnically diverse, the community has drawn its numbers from Eastern Europe, West and Central Africa, and

  8. History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/History.htm
    25 Jun 2012: History. History was taught in Tasmania as soon as schools were established: British history, learned by rote. When public examinations were established in 1860, History was a major subject, with factual questions ('Name the chief plots in Charles II

  9. Physics and Physicists

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Physics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Physics and Physicists. A 1942 vice-regal visit to Leicester McAuley's retreat at the Great Lake, where he did much of his work (AOT, PH30/1/2711). The teaching of tertiary physics in Tasmania commenced at the newly established University of

  10. Cadbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cadbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cadbury. Harry Kelly, 'Cadbury's by mountain and sea, Claremont, Tasmania', 1950s (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The chocolate house of Cadbury was founded in Birmingham, England in 1830 and began exports to Australia in 1881. After the First World War

  11. Exports

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exports.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exports. Loading export apples on to a Europe-bound ship, Hobart wharves, 1890 (AOT, PH30/1/5607). Exports have a major impact on Tasmania's economic performance, as about half the state's products are sold either overseas or interstate. Since

  12. Phoenix Ironworks

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Phoenix.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Phoenix Ironworks. The Phoenix Ironworks was founded in Launceston in 1860 by millwright William Henry Knight. Initially he imported and manufactured agricultural equipment, and was a traditional millwright for the flour and sawmilling industries.

  13. Ritchie Milling Dynasty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Ritchie.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ritchie Milling Dynasty. The mill at Scone (AOT, PH30/1/1150). The Ritchie milling dynasty began with Thomas Ritchie, who by 1834 had built a flourmill at Scone, near Perth. Sons Thomas, John and George were involved with milling in Longford, but it

  14. Strikes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Strikes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Strikes. Workers have used a range of collective methods to maintain or improve their working conditions, ranging from mass absconding, making demands or petitions, to imposing work bans, but strikes – or the temporary withdrawal of labour – are

  15. Museums

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Museums.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Museums. Samuel Clifford's photograph of what was to become the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1862 (W. L. Crowther Library). The collecting and study of Australia's unique flora and fauna began with the first explorers, and this quest for

  16. Croquet

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Croquet.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Croquet. Croquet appealed to all ages and both sexes: a party at Bishopscourt, Hobart, about 1880 (ALMFA, SLT). Croquet arrived in Tasmania in the 1860s, but from the 1880s was overshadowed in popularity by tennis. Some felt this a pity since

  17. Cycling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cycling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cycling. A cycling race at Cambridge, 1908 (AOT, PH30/1/4327). Cycling has attracted enthusiastic support in Tasmania since the 1880s, when the first cycling clubs in Launceston and Hobart organised race meetings, but it really became popular in the

  18. Netball

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Netball.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Netball. Netball, then known as 'basketball', was introduced to Tasmania in the 1890s, becoming a popular winter sport in schools, mainly for girls, though some boys played. After the First World War it became popular among adult women, and in the

  19. The Mercury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mercury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: The Mercury. The Mercury office in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/5440). The Mercury began in 1853 when John Davies, a former convict, bought a Hobart newspaper, the Guardian, and the following year renamed it the Hobarton Mercury. It first appeared as a

  20. Defence

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Defence.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Defence. Alfred Winter ,'Group of military volunteers', c 1880 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Defence, in terms of resistance to invasion, was a life and death issue for Aboriginal Tasmanians in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. The
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    Time Management, Planning and Organisation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/professional-skills/time-management,-planning-and-organisation-public
    30 Jan 2024: Learn how to manage deadlines, meet targets, and improve your performance in the workplace.
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